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Unmetered 10+ gigabit connections were on the order of $1/mbit/mo wholesale over a decade ago when I priced out a custom CDN so for the cost of 100 TB of data transfer out of AWS you could get a 24/7 sustained 10gbit/s (>3 PB per month at 100% utilization).

Bandwidth has always been crazy cheap.



Not all connections are created equal. Even some big providers clearly have iffy peering agreements upstream that’ll manifest as terrible performance if you have a widely-geographically-distributed bandwidth-heavy load.


Indeed. If you're not using a cloud provider bandwidth is extremely cheap.

In fact locally I can get a 10 gbps home internet unmetered connection for $300/mo.

I'm not sure how they'd react if I transferred 1 PB/mo though :)


That’s pretty expensive. Sonic offers 1-10gbps (depending on where you live) unmetered symmetric connections for $60/mo to the Bay Area… they’re also the only ISP that petitioned the FCC in favor of net neutrality.

For work I end up transferring 50-150 gigs often, sometimes daily. Never heard a word from them that this has been a problem.


That's pretty cool, but I'd say the opposite that Sonic is crazy cheap.


Is my math wrong here? 10 gbps -> 8s per 10 GB -> 800s per 1TB -> 80,000s per 1PB -> 22.3 hrs at full speed for 1 PB?


If you search "1pib/(10 gbps)" on google, you'll get 10.4 days.

An unmetered 10G port at a US data center is ~$1500/mo. Not particularly expensive


800,000s per 1PB, off by a 10 factor


Thanks!


Fully saturated you could transfer a few petabytes per month on a 10gig line.


If you host copies of your data with a few big providers could you do something smart like detect and redirect requests from AWS to an S3 bucket and not pay for bandwidth leaving the provider?




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